Formatting Practices and Ordering Relations: The Role of Multi-Scalar Regulation and Discourses in the Field of International Organ Transplantation

Biographical Notes

Dr. Judith Miggelbrink (SFB 1199, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL), Leipzig University & Technical University Dresden, Germany)
Judith Miggelbrink studied geography at the University of Münster and holds a PhD from Leipzig University. Her dissertation examined discourses on space and regions in human geography at the end of the twentieth century. Today in the head of the research unit “Productions of Space: State and Society” at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) as well as the principal investigator of Project B5: “Border-Transcending Assemblages of Medical Practices” in the SFB 1199. Her research interests include borders and border regimes.

Frank Meyer (SFB 1199 & Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL), Leipzig University, Germany)
Having studied geography in Leipzig, Frank Meyer is currently pursuing his PhD. His research interests include processes of peripheralization (especially in rural areas in Germany) and stigmatization, practices of territorial regulation in Europe, as well as ethnographic work on illicit practices subverting state-sided regulation.

Tom Schwarzenberg (SFB 1199 & Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL), Leipzig University, Germany)
Tom Schwarzenberg studied economic and social geography at Leipzig University and researches in the SFB 1199 project B05: “Border-Transcending Assemblages of Medical Practices”. He is particularly interested in analysing constitutive relations between social processes in everyday life and their diverse spatial representations embedded in practices and discourses. His previous research was mainly focused on peripheralized regions – in particular rural areas in East Germany.